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The Kremlin said on Thursday that the Cuban coast guard \u201cacted correctly\u201d when it allegedly opened fire on a speedboat from Florida on Wednesday afternoon, claiming to kill four people aboard and wounding the other six.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCuban border guards did what they had to do in that situation,\u201d <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe most important thing is the humanitarian component. Of course, the humanitarian issues of Cuban citizens must be resolved, and no one should create obstacles,\u201d he said, derisively referring to the intense pressure<\/a> placed on the rickety Cuban Communist economy by the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Cuba\u2019s military shot at a U.S.-registered boat Wednesday close to its shoreline, authorities said. (AP Digital Embed)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova likewise said<\/a> the shooting was justified, denouncing the speedboat as an \u201caggressive U.S. provocation, aimed at escalating the situation and triggering conflict.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The shooting incident <\/span>occurred<\/span><\/a> on Wednesday near the island of Cayo Falcones, according to the Cuban Interior Ministry. Cuban officials claimed the speedboat passengers fired first and injured the commander of a Cuban vessel that approached to demand identification. Cuban border guards allegedly returned fire, killing four speedboat passengers and taking the wounded into custody.<\/span><\/p>\n
![<\/a><\/p>\nCuba\u2019s military shot at a U.S.-registered boat Wednesday close to its shoreline, authorities said. (AP Digital Embed)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova likewise said<\/a> the shooting was justified, denouncing the speedboat as an \u201caggressive U.S. provocation, aimed at escalating the situation and triggering conflict.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThe shooting incident <\/span>occurred<\/span><\/a> on Wednesday near the island of Cayo Falcones, according to the Cuban Interior Ministry. Cuban officials claimed the speedboat passengers fired first and injured the commander of a Cuban vessel that approached to demand identification. Cuban border guards allegedly returned fire, killing four speedboat passengers and taking the wounded into custody.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nLater on Wednesday, the Cuban regime <\/span>claimed<\/span><\/a> all ten of the speedboat passengers were heavily armed Cuban nationals with a \u201cknown history of criminal and violent activity,\u201d who were attempting to \u201ccarry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.\u201d At least one of the individuals named surfaced later, verifying that he was safe in the United States and neither in Cuban captivity nor involved in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\nCuban officials said the boat was loaded with rifles, handguns, bulletproof vests, camouflage uniforms, and Molotov cocktails. They claimed another suspect whose task was to \u201cguarantee the reception of the armed infiltration\u201d was arrested in Cuba on Wednesday and has \u201cconfessed to his actions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSecretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the U.S. government had no connection to the speedboat or its passengers and had no additional information beyond what the Cuban Interior Ministry announced.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe have our embassy on the ground in Havana working this as we speak,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna find out exactly what happened here, and we\u2019ll respond accordingly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kremlin said on Thursday that the Cuban coast guard \u201cacted correctly\u201d when it allegedly opened fire on a speedboat from Florida on Wednesday afternoon, claiming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2026\/02\/AP26056800055913.jpg\"){kind=link}